Tampa General not on the list???
Something not adding up....
By far the best hospital in the Tampa bay area.
One usually says what an acronym means before it is used. CMS?
On the other hand, ratings are (or used to be at least) based on things such as are progress notes up to date and were the fire extinguishers inspected within the last year - it's hard to make direct comparisons on patient care because the best hospitals - like those in Philadelphia, for example, none of which got "Five Stars" - usually get the sickest patients, many of whom end up dying - that doesn't look too good in the ratings......
Maine Medical Center has been known to have some of the highest rates of MRSA and other infections in the country.
where does the CMS get their data from, as it seems to have left out this hospital in Baltimore Maryland?
“The Johns Hopkins Hospital (Baltimore). Opened in 1889, the Johns Hopkins Hospital now encompasses 33 operating rooms, the Sheikh Zayed Tower, the Charlotte R. Bloomberg Children’s Center, the Nelson/Harvey Building, and adult and pediatric emergency departments. In 2016, the hospital’s surgeons performed the world’s first liver transplant with an HIV-positive donor and recipient. The Johns Hopkins Hospital ranks as the third-best hospital in the nation and No. 1 hospital in Maryland, according to 2017-18 rankings by U.S. News & World Report. The hospital is also nationally ranked for 15 adult specialties and 10 children’s specialties.”
Doesn’t make sense. One little country Appalachian hospital in Kentucky beat out all the Louisville and Lexington ones? Some doing medical breakthrough transplants. Would like to know what the judgments were based on.
One hospital listed for the entire State of New York? There are a half dozen in NYC alone that are among the finest on earth. And not a single hospital listed in the State of Connecticut,home of Yale Medical School?
Trust me,boys and girls...do *not* use this as a *comprehensive* or *complete* list of the nation's outstanding hospitals.
Chatuge Regional Hospital? It’s a small hospital that doesn’t even have an operating room.
The one TN hospital is just up the street from me.
But only One? Good ones in Nashville.
CMS criteria for rating hospitals is utter nonsense and almost nothing to do with a hospital’s ability to deliver quality health care.
it’s a bunch of stupid metrics like every staff member washing their hands each time they enter a room, and they’re the kind of things that are easy to game by simply focusing on the metrics and pretty much ignoring common sense care ...
Totally BS.....hospitals self-report and they cover up more than they document.
Totally BS.....hospitals self-report and they cover up more than they document.
The answer to that question is that they are good at doing the documentation that Medicare requires. Also, many of these hospitals have lower acuity than other hospitals, and therefore their outcomes (e.g. length of stay, recurrent admission, etc.) will be better. If you know medicine, you know that lists like this are pretty much worthless, and that the criteria used by outcomes analysts and government healthcare bean counters are disturbingly out of touch and ridiculous.
Only 1 hospital from NYS??
None Upstate?!
Sucks to be us.
Sigh.